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Modern slavery in Mexico
9 documented cases recorded in Mexico, 2006–2023. Locations are deliberately generalized to protect survivors.
Mexico City, Mexico
Trafficking ring recruited women from rural Tlaxcala with false romantic promises. Forced into commercial sexual exploitation in the capital Accused: Multi-generational trafficking family network.
Juarez, Mexico, Mexico
During a raid conducted by the Mexican Police, more than 500 men, and 530 women, were detained on suspicion of human trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors.
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
Police also arrested four people accused of smuggling the migrants, who are from Central and South America and Asia, Chiapas state prosecutors said in a statement. Prosecutors have also detained two officials of Mexico's National Immigration Institute for allegedly prostituting female Central American migrants in the state of Chiapas More than 500 illegal migrants have been discovered crammed into the trailers of two trucks heading from Mexico towards the US. While most of those on board were thought to be from Guatemala, there were others from Ecuador and El Salvador as well as smaller numbers from as far afield as China, Nepal and India. There were 32 women and 4 children on board, authorities said.
La Noria Street, acapulco, mexico, Mexico
Five men and two women were detained in raids on five bars and are being held pending investigation for alleged human trafficking, organized crime, pimping and corruption of a minor. Police freed 62 female victims of a forced-prostitution ring in Mexico City, including a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said. One of the bars in the case was known as "La Pasarela," or "The Runway," was in business for decades. The women complained they were forced to work as prostitutes in the capital's downtown sector and had to hand over their earnings to a group of pimps, Mexico City chief prosecutor Miguel Mancera said Monday. Mancera said the women were forced to have sex in tiny bedrooms smaller than 6 1/2 feet (6 meters) a side. They would charge between $9 and $26 and paid pimps $4. Mancera's office said one of the victims told police that a man had befriended her in another state and offered to find her work in Mexico City. Upon arriving in the capital, she and other women were forced to prostitute themselves.
Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico
Mexico City's attorney gerneral, Miguel Angel Mancera reports that the victims ranged from 14 to 70 years old. Some were tortured, some victims also suffered sexual abuse, some had serious wounds, some even had fractures. All of the victims were suffering from severe dehydration and malnutrition. Some were taken to a hospital. The captives, some of whom speak only indigenous languages and no Spanish, were locked in the building, which had bars on the windows and a fence outside, he said. They made handbags and clothespins and were not paid. Their only daily meal consisted of chicken legs and rotten vegetables, Mancera said. "The vast majority of the food we found was spoiled," he said. Video of the inside of the building showed filthy and crowded living conditions. The men and women worked 8 a.m. to midnight and were given only a half-hour food break. They were not allowed to go to the bathroom, and many soiled themselves, officials said.
Ignacio Zaragoza 491 Gomez Farias, 15010 Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico, Mexico
The traffickers are hospital personnel from Mexico City's Hospital Central de Oriente who have been accused of selling a newborn baby that they delivered and helped illegally register babies as couples’ children. Drs. Victor Manuel Mancera Gonzalez, Jorge Adalberto Guerrero Bustos, and Alfredo Ortiz Rosas; Nurse Maria Guadalupe Castro Morales and Receptionsist Rodriguez Mondragon are the traffickers involved. Drs. Mancera Gonzalez, Ortiz Rosas, and Guerrero Bustos delivered Diana Fernanda Castillo’s baby. Officials stated that Castillo “ never saw her daughter but heard her cry. The mother repeatedly asked Ortiz Rosas to let her see her daughter, but he told her it would be later, once she recovered from the anesthesia and Caesarean section surgery she had undergone. Then Mancera Gonzalez told Castillo that her baby had been taken to the "Moctezuma" Infants Hospital. The next day, Ortiz told her, ‘Your daughter died. There was nothing that could be done for her. She was born with insufficient respiratory ability. I tried to save her, but she died.’ He also told her the body had been cremated.” The doctors sold Castillo’s baby to a woman named Cinthia Nayeli Perez Ortiz for 15,000 pesos ($1,120) in November 2008. On the side, Dr. Mancera Gonzalez had charged a couple, Ruiz Padilla and Merino Hernandez 12,000 pesos ($900) to illegally register a baby as their daughter. http://www.pgjdf.gob.mx/ http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/06/mexico.stolen.babies/index.html
Revolucion, Tijauana, Baja California, Mexico
Yes and No Yes: The head of the Tourist Police Force, Andres Mendez comments that due to their involvement with the trafficking and exploitation of children, they have been able to reduce the visibility of the exploitation of children on the streets. No: At the same time now that there is a reduction of visibility it does not mean that it is not happening behind closed doors because it is. Ana Luz Sanchez commented that the police force does nothing to help these children, however they only get involved if someone files a report. Even then it is highly probable that nothing will be done to help these children.
Cananea Mexico, Mexico
Jose Rosario Irazaba Aldaco, 45, claims to be from Phoenix, Arizona. It is believed that he kidnapped the victims including his two stepsons with the intent to sell them in the States. The boys ages 1 and 4 would be sold for $10,000 and the girls, 19, 15 and 12 would be sold 2 grand a piece to work as prostitutes.
Valle de santiago-Jaral del Progreso, Valle de Santiago, Guanajato, Mexico, Mexico
KBL Group International recruited foreigners of Chinese origin to work in a factory to make sweaters with the promise of high pay and hourly rates. In truth, KBL would charge workers for travel expenses, rent and food causing each to be in debt. Workers has to work 14 hours a day, six days a week without sick days or holidays. They were not allowed to marry or females to get pregnant. The only day off were Sundays, where they were allowed short alloted time out of the factory with other workers and escorted for surveillance. All identification and documents were taken from their possession and were threatened with deportation. They were also punished with high fines for tardiness by the minute and for not buying the food KBL provided. KBL also had Mexican employees were were not allowed to communicate with the Chinese workers.